Thursday, March 14, 2013

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray, Read by Libba Bray

I can handle a little snark, but I had a hard time dealing with TOTAL snark and little plot in this one. I admire Bray as a writer, but I really wanted to stop listening to these CDs. She's a great reader, but I had no idea what was going to happen to these beauty queens on an island and I really didn't care.  The reader kinda knows that a feminist enlightenment is going to happen to them, and, even with the snark, I felt that our culture problems were being thrown in my face.  I'm always impressed with subtlety, which wasn't present here. However, I could see an English teacher reading a paragraph or two to demonstrate satire.

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